Weʼve raised £5,547 to hit our £1 million mark for families with a child with a life threatening or terminal illness in Essex.

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We are committed to raising as much money as possible for families needing our help. We are now just £50,000 away from reaching the £1 million mark and we would love our community to help us us get there.

After hearing an interview with Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity’s founder Bernadette Cleary in 1993, myself and the late John Penrose established the Harold Wood Friends Group to support the charity. The group started fundraising when we were offered an empty shop for 3 months, we embraced this opportunity and ran jumble sales in the shop 2 days a week to raise money for Rainbow Trust.

24 years later the shop and friends group are still going strong. We are delighted to have raised an incredible £950,000 to date.

It hardly seems possible that Rainbow Trust has been part of my life for 24 years. I feel fortunate to have made so many generous and true friends since the opening of the shop and I am proud of what we continue to achieve.

Please help us reach our goal to help Rainbow Trust support more families with a seriously ill child in Essex. Your generosity would mean so much to us.

Thank you!

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3 months ago

Pauline Obee MBE

3 months ago

Thank you to everyone for your support

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3 months ago

Pauline Obee MBE

3 months ago

More money donated offline we have now reached an incredible £969,171.
£30,000 to go.

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4 months ago

Pauline Obee MBE

4 months ago

We have now raised an amazing £962,000.
£38,000 to go, thank you to everyone for their support so far

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6 months ago

Pauline Obee MBE started crowdfunding

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Mystery SHop in Harold Wood

Dec 1, 2017

This will boost your TARGET!

£5,200.00

Essex Family Support Workers and Upminster Shop

Nov 11, 2017

Lots of cakes made to sell at the Upminster Shop by the Essex Family Support Workers and staff. We'll get to that MILLION soon!

£151.90

Anonymous

Oct 31, 2017

Good luck and hope you reach that 1m target very soon.

£50.00

Anonymous

Oct 20, 2017

Bob Coyne

Oct 9, 2017

Well done to Pauline and all the volunteers, what a fantastic achievement you have all made.

£20.00

Andrea Kelley

Sep 25, 2017

I have never known such a committed and loyal group of volunteers. Please show your support and help them reach their incredible goal.Go Harold Wood Volunteers you are amazing!

£24.00

Heather

Sep 21, 2017

Congratulations on raising so much money and profile over the years. Good luck raising the next £50k!